Washington, Oct. 8.
All government departments prepared today to put into immediate effect President Roosevel's dictum on the strengthening of anti-spy measures in the United States.
Although plans have mot been divulged, it is believed the secret services of the Army and Navy, the Treasury organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other departments will be welded into a comprehensive unit to protect military and naval secrets of the United States, President Roosevelt, in a press conference yesterday, pointed out that the Administration was concerned with the activities of foreign spies im. America and said that present Federal machinery is insufficiently compact to eliminate the spy evil.
The President indicated that he even contemplated creating a special agency to cope with the evil. He emphasized, however, that the United States was not considering plans to establish a huge anti-propaganda organization.
The announcement came immediately after the President conferred with Mr. Lamar Hardy, Federal Attorney for the district of New York. Mr. Hardy was the district attorney in charge of investigating Nazi spy activities in the United States which, several months ago, resulted in in-dietments being delivered against eighteen Germans and Americans on charges of espionage.
Of the 18, several of whom were high Nazi officials, only four were taken into custody, the others either having fled to Germany or were out of the United States-at the time, Mr
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